Saturday, July 06, 2013

Why are unions unpopular?:
... Nobody under the age of 40 can remember when unions were (plausibly or
not) accused of wrecking the economy. Indeed, these days, the wreckers are
not unions but managers. From bankers causing recession through bosses
plundering their companies to BBC executives
stealing licence-payers money, the economic vandals today are bosses,
not unions.

What's more, it would be easy to argue that stronger unions would be in
everyone's interest, and not just because they help
restrain managerial
parasitism. They represent the "little platoons" that Tories should admire,
and could be part of the "big society" that allows state regulation to be
scaled back. And it's quite possible that the higher wages unions want
would help the economic recovery by
increasing aggregate
demand.

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'Why are Unions Unpopular?'

A brief post via Chris Dillow, then I'm out of here for a bit:

Why are unions unpopular?:
... Nobody under the age of 40 can remember when unions were (plausibly or
not) accused of wrecking the economy. Indeed, these days, the wreckers are
not unions but managers. From bankers causing recession through bosses
plundering their companies to BBC executives
stealing licence-payers money, the economic vandals today are bosses,
not unions.

What's more, it would be easy to argue that stronger unions would be in
everyone's interest, and not just because they help
restrain managerial
parasitism. They represent the "little platoons" that Tories should admire,
and could be part of the "big society" that allows state regulation to be
scaled back. And it's quite possible that the higher wages unions want
would help the economic recovery by
increasing aggregate
demand.